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A Description of the Center
About the CSC
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The CSC’s blog site. Read about our National Community Resiliency
Project and expanding work in the Mississippi Delta
The NCRP project, from the Palo Alto Weekly
We teach parents, educators, youth-service workers, communities and organizations how to engage the innate resilience—the human capacity for learning, creativity, compassion, common sense and well-being—in the youth they teach and care for, and, as importantly, in themselves … to become wise and loving role models for our children.
The Center’s work is built on three decades of successfully applying a Principles-based/innate health psychology to communities and schools across the nation. We see an understanding of the principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the "essential curriculum" for students, educators, caregivers and parents. Understanding these Principles will assist our younger generations to most rapidly shed insecurity, fear, and the biases and prejudices of the past; and to more fully harness their innate goodness, creativity and wisdom …to create a world of unforeseen possibility and sustainable change.
The Center’s primary activities include:
- Offering individual, couples’
and family consulting,
as well as workshops and seminars. CSC offers corporate and
agency training, as well as executive and team coaching to
promote camaraderie, efficiency and productive, positive states
of mind in the workplace—despite economic conditions. A
portion of all private training revenue supports our not-for-profit
work.
- Producing Principles-based materials for the fields of education, youth services and parent outreach & education, as well as community revitalization.
- Offering training programs to deepen the understanding of these Principles for teachers, administrators, parents, community members, agency staff and other caregivers so the "microclimates" within which our children are raised are in alignment to a paradigm of hope, love, courage and sustained positive change.
- Designing and implementing research projects in order to publicize the efficacy of Principles-based interventions to the relevant fields and the public.
- Grant-making, articles, educational outreach, speaking engagements
Donate to the Center for Sustainable Change!
Your donation supports CSC’s work with
- youth "at-risk and at promise" and their counselors, parents
and caregivers
- staff in juvenile justice systems
- inner-city communities and schools
Please contact the CSC at (650) 424-0705 for more information
on our projects and programs and how to make a donation. We
accept donations via Visa, Master Card and American Express.
Current re-design of this website is funded by a generous grant
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Join the CSC for our monthly Open Class in innate mental health and releasing our own resiliency. Our Open Class is the first Thursday of every month @ 6:30-8:00 p.m. Please RSVP in advance with Jayme King at jayme@principlespsychology.org or call (650) 424-0705, x. 20. Sliding scale, suggested donation of $20 to $45. Family members, community members, educators and professionals are welcome. This class is held in open dialogue format, with much of the content suggested by participants.
With memories of recent teen suicides in our local, Palo Alto community, the CSC continues our Open Classes with a special focus on increasing mental health and well-being in families & relationships… We especially invite families, (parents and teens) and couples to come together to:
1/7/2010 "Increasing Mental Health in Our Families:" What is Mental Health & Resiliency? Where does it really come from? Can we "tap it & grow it"? with Ami Chen Mills-Naim, CSC Director and author of "The Spark Inside: A Special Book for Youth." Ms. Mills-Naim has worked with families and adolescents for more than 20 years, teaching the principles that govern innate resiliency—and what gets in the way. She is currently director of the National Community Resiliency Project, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
2/4/2010 "The Element of Time in Mental Health and Healing:" When Do We Expect to "Feel Better?" And can it be Now? with Ami Chen Mills-Naim, CSC Director
3/4/2010 "What You Think About Me is None of My Business!" Are Teens the only ones who feel peer pressure & struggle to "fit in"? Teens, bring your stressed-out grown-ups to this workshop with Irina Khovraleva, IHSS, SWII & Community Practitioner in the 3 Principles, Santa Clara County Social Services. |
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Special Events & Workshops: Local & National
Jan. 13-15, 2010: National Community Resiliency Project (Mississippi Delta) Workshops & Facilitator Training in Rolling Fork and Greenville, MS. Please call the Delta Citizens Alliance for details & future events: 662-344-9940.
February 19, 2010: “Growing Mental Health in Our Families” with Ami Chen Mills-Naim, at Fairmeadow Elementary School Library at 8:45 - 10:15 a.m. (Sponsored by the Fairmeadow PTA.)
March 12 & 13: "The Portal to Peace: Finding Deeper Peace for Yourself So You Can Illuminate the Path for Others" with Ms. Mills-Naim and Drs. Bill Pettit MD, and Linda Sandel-Pettit, Ed.D., AHEC workshop, Charlotte, NC. Contact Carolyn Minnock at 704-512-7587.
March 30: "Growing Mental Health for Parents and Teens" at the Palo Alto Family YMCA, 3412 Ross Road, Palo Alto, with Ami Chen Mills-Naim. Program time is 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. This event is open to the general public & registration is not required.
April 8 to May 13: "Spiritual Fitness" at the Palo Alto Family YMCA a six-part series, Thursday evenings, 6:30-8 pm. Join CSC's Director Ami Chen Naim for a reflective dive into the 3 Principles of Mind, Consciousness & Thought and how our understanding of these principles impacts family and work life, leading to increased peace-of-mind, harmony, communication, efficiency, and well-being. Teenagers 13 and over are welcome. Registration is through the YMCA only. Call (650) 856-9622 to register. Thursdays, April 8 – May 13, from 6:30 – 8pm. |
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